Help Wanted: 3.1 HT for Small Room

Hard to beat the Mirage OMD line for HT at thier price point now.

Jonmc, I have the fronts, conventional MTMs. Are you suggesting I use Mirage for sub and center?

John

John,

Interesting task because the budget gets you right to the edge of some satisfying solutions:

Assuming that you want a large, flat screen TV (55" or +), I would think that app. $1k is spoken for (last I looked).

For $400, both Denon and Onkyo offer reasonably powerful AVRs with Audyssey - which I believe is virtually mandatory for both seamless subwoofer integration and for smooth bass in a smallish room. I haven't auditioned the relevant models, but I do use an Onkyo Pre-Pro in my main system and an Integra AVR in my HT system - both with happy results. (My Onkyo pre-pro has Audyssey XT32 which is fabulous and recommended without reservation, but thus-equipped AVRs start out at +/- $1500. The Integra is an older unit and the Audyssey performance is still very good - tho you won't confuse it for XT32.)

Add the entry level SVS subwoofer (they start at $650), and there goes your $2K.

The center channel is the lowest priority to me, so I wouldn't make a recommendation - other than to suggest that you don't use much budget capacity on whatever you buy.

Obviously, anything you save on the TV brings you back towards the preferred expenditure levels.

Good Luck.

Marty

Just to muddy the waters (this is A'gon, after all) a bit with temptation. The 73" Mitsubishi DLP runs $1400ish. Very good (tho not great) image, not for wall-mounting, and comes replete with a sorta glitchy power-up sequence, but 73" makes a statement.

Marty